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This article describes examples of waste management systems from archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East. These examples are then contextualized in the broader perspectives of environmental history. We can confidently claim that the natural resource use of societies predating the Lower Palaeolithic was in equilibrium with the environment. In sharp contrast stand communities from the Upper Palaeolithic and onwards, when agriculture appeared and provided opportunities for what seemed like unlimited expansion.

Waste Management at the End of the Stone Age

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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This article describes examples of waste management systems from archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East. These examples are then contextualized in...

Waste Management at the End of the Stone Age

Data publikacji: 14 lip 2017

Zakres stron: 44 - 57

Otrzymano: 19 lut 2017

Przyjęty: 22 maj 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0009

Słowa kluczowe
Waste, waste management, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, cleanliness, environmental history

© 2017 Filip Havlíček et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Waste Management at the End of the Stone Age

Data publikacji: 14 lip 2017

Zakres stron: 44 - 57

Otrzymano: 19 lut 2017

Przyjęty: 22 maj 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0009

Słowa kluczoweWaste, waste management, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, cleanliness, environmental history

© 2017 Filip Havlíček et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Waste, waste management, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, cleanliness, environmental history